From CS 160 Fall 2008

Contents 1 Interview with Wylie 1.1 Roles 1.2 Notes 1.3 Follow Up Questions 1.4 Questions from User 1.5 Additional Notes 2 Interview with Morgan 2.1 Roles 2.2 Notes 2.3 Follow Up Questions 2.4 Questions from User 2.5 Additional Notes 3 Interview with Ellisa 3.1 Roles 3.2 Notes 3.3 Follow Up Questions 3.4 Questions from User 3.5 Additional Notes

Interview with Wylie

Name: Wylie Sex: Male Gaming Experience: Inexperienced

Roles

• Intro: Nathan
• Camera: Jon
• Computer: Jacek
• Note taker: Kev

Notes

• Pause/Resume
  • No problems, perfect!
• Eat Food
  • Hesitated after cutting the steak and picking up a piece (didn’t know he had to click on the face), but figured it out after 5 seconds
  • The rest is history…
• Eat Food w/ Distractions
  • Like the other two, he had a good start eating the food. Also like the others, he found the body movements to be a little shocking but didn’t know it stood for bad posture so he didn’t correct it immediately
  • Knew to click and drag body parts to fix posture

Follow Up Questions

• What was the biggest challenge you faced in the game?
  • Not asked, unnecessary
• What part of the interface worked for you? What was clear/intuitive? What wasn’t?
  • Obvious: fork and knife work
  • Dragging body parts, perhaps b/c of the lack of cursor
  • Slowing down: which part to pause at
• If the interface was flushed out, do you think the game is a good way to teach people about dining etiquette?
  • The posture would work, but for pacing have some sort of indicator
• Was it intuitive to use two buttons for the left/right (fork/knife) hands?
  • Yes, the instructions really helped
• Was it difficult for you to figure out to click the utensils as opposed to drag them?
  • Not asked
• For the body movements, did you expect to click or drag the body parts?
  • He dragged first
• Do you think the cursors were useful at all or were they extraneous?
  • Not asked
• Did you expect the person to stab his head when you mouseovered the head?
• If you could have additional dialogue boxes with instructions, what would they say and when would they appear?
  • For slouching, have a dialogue box appear as soon as the body begins to slouch
• Is there anything else you would change about the interface?
  • Having a pacing thing or speedometer

Questions from User

• None

Additional Notes

• Maybe dotted lines to show where the posture should be
• For pacing, have an average pacing on the “food remaining” bar… your pace is mapped against it

Interview with Morgan

Name: Morgan Sex: Male Gaming Experience: Experienced

Roles

• Intro: Josh
• Camera: Jon
• Computer: Nathan
• Note taker: Kev

Notes

• Pause/Resume
  • Pausing the game was easy for Morgan
  • He had a difficult time reading the text on the pause menu (probably just poor writing)
• Eat Food
  • Either having trouble figuring out how to use fork/knife or interface isn’t clear
  • Fork isn’t placed on steak
  • Once the steak has been cut, Morgan found it easy to eat the cut piece
  • Once he figured out how to cut and eat the steak, he easily completed the task
• Eat Food w/ Distractions
  • Confused about tilted head (put the warning up after the body was really slouching)
    • Didn’t know what to do
    • Continued eating
    • Started to understand what was happening after the dialogue box appeared
    • Attempted to drag the head up

Follow Up Questions

• What was the biggest challenge you faced in the game?
  • Trying to figure out how to click the food to stab it w/ a fork and cut it… eating was simple
• What part of the interface worked for you? What was clear/intuitive? What wasn’t?
  • Clear/intuitive: eating the food
• If the interface was flushed out, do you think the game is a good way to teach people about dining etiquette?
  • Very (too) basic, not enough detail about the minor dining etiquettes
  • Could be an effective way to teach basics
• Was it intuitive to use two buttons for the left/right (fork/knife) hands?
  • Not asked
• Was it difficult for you to figure out to click the utensils as opposed to drag them?
  • First tried to click and drag utensils, but then he saw the cursor diagrams and it then became obvious
• For the body movements, did you expect to click or drag the body parts?
  • Click and then drag
• Do you think the cursors were useful at all or do were they extraneous?
  • No answer
• Did you expect the person to stab his head when you mouseovered the head?
  • No, he noticed the cursors. It was a little bit of a challenge because we used paper but it’d be much easier if it were instantaneous
• Is there anything else you would change about the interface?
  • Tutorial (i.e. a mouse over tutorial)

Questions from User

• None

Additional Notes

• In the tutorial, have the dialogue box for slouching appear as soon as the body starts slouching

Interview with Ellisa

Name: Ellisa Sex: Female Gaming Experience: Inexperienced

Roles

• Intro: Josh
• Camera: Jon
• Computer: Nathan
• Note taker: Kev

Notes

• Pause/Resume
  • No problems
• Eat Food
  • Confused about “food left” bar
  • Didn’t know she had to cut the food
  • Wasn’t obvious how to use the utensils until the dialogue boxes showed up
  • Kept putting the entire steak in the person’s mouth
  • Tried cutting the steak without putting the fork in it first
• Eat Food w/ Distractions
  • After getting the feedback screen (which told her she was eating the steak without cutting it), she learned to cut the steak first
  • Thought the head tilt was the person chewing (hard to show on paper)
  • A prompt showed up saying , but she didn’t know what to do to fix the problem… continued clicking on the body and didn’t try dragging the body parts
  • Looked for directions, “No directions”

Follow Up Questions

• What was the biggest challenge you faced in the game?
  • Not asked
• What part of the interface worked for you? What was clear/intuitive? What wasn’t?
  • Good to have the instructions the whole time (as opposed to removing them after a while)
  • If the interface was flushed out, do you think the game is a good way to teach people about dining etiquette?
  • There should be levels with different kinds of forks, knives
  • Soup – put the spoon back on the plate and not on your bowl
  • Napkins – putting it down before you start
• Was it intuitive to use two buttons for the left/right (fork/knife) hands?
  • Yes
• Was it difficult for you to figure out to click the utensils as opposed to drag them?
  • She kept clicking and dragging
• For the body movements, did you expect to click or drag the body parts?
  • It would be more obvious with cursors
• Do you think the cursors were useful at all or were they extraneous?
  • They would be useful in a real game
• Did you expect the person to stab his head when you mouseovered the head?
  • Yes
• Is there anything else you would change about the interface?
  • Have a directions screen
  • Not say “food left”
• Maybe “food remaining,” or “food left on plate”
• The icon might be enough

Questions from User

• What do you do if the dialogue box says you’re eating too fast?

Additional Notes

• If the steak is not cut, make it more apparent
• Vegetarian version